Jon Tester actually said...

The DOE is flat-lining the budget for biomass and bio-refineries research and development as one of the two programs in the whole energy eff...

Is progress being made at an adequate rate that you are happy with?

I do not think we are talking about that near enough as we go forth with nuclear power.

These are important projects, and they need to be finished. In order to be finished, we need to have the resources.